The Stars Come out for Starkey

Last night celebrities came to St. Paul, Minnesota to support the Starkey Hearing Foundation. Each year the organization holds a Gala to raise money for hearing aids. Millions of dollars are given as a result. Among this year's celebrities were Johnny Depp, Jennifer Garner, Alice Cooper, John Mellencamp, and Jay Leno among others. KARE-TV has this video of celebrities arriving.

Scam seeks donations for deaf students

Someone is going around several Michigan communities and asking for donations to "help send kids from the Michigan School for the Deaf to play football in Washington, D.C." But "police and school officials say the fundraiser isn’t real and an alleged scammer or a group of people bent on fraud has been raking in the cash." Read more here.

Optimus Prime in Portland

Optimus Prime visited an elementary school in Portland Friday to help raise money for its oral program that puts deaf and hearing children together. KPTV has a video report on the Transformer's visit.

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25th Silent Sunday

The Arkansas School for the Deaf held it's 25th Silent Sunday Fundraiser in Little Rock hoping to raise more money to fund new technology equipment for the school. KARK-TV has a video report.

Ironman competitor raises money to help deaf community

Casey Davis is raising awareness (and funds) for a website designed to help educate the deaf on symptoms, medications and medical tests. Davis visited Chattanooga, Tennessee over the weekend and WRCB-TV has a video report. No captions but you can read the story here.

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LA Times: Deaf film director can finally hear soundtracks to his films

Austin Chapman

A few days ago, we told you about a deaf filmmaker who opened a Kickstarter page to fund his first feature film. You can read Austin Chapman's story here. Now the Los Angeles Times has picked up on Chapman's story. He got some national attention when he went on Reddit and posed the a question: "I can hear music for the first time ever, what should I listen to?" He received nearly 14,000 replies. You can read the full LA Times story here.

Jester

Deaf filmaker Austin Chapman has created a Kickstarter page to help fund his first feature film. Chapman says Jester will show viewer his "experience growing up in a silent world and hearing music for the first time at 23 years old." You can see the Kickstarter page here and below is the short film on which Jester is based, called Eleven Eleven.

Not So Scary Halloween Party

Anthony Smith

A New Hampshire comic book store is holding for Hear in New Hampshire this Saturday (Oct 12)called the Not So Scary Halloween Party. A comic book poster created by a local artist will go on sale with all the money going to the nonprofit. The agency provides educational, therapeutic, and support services to children with hearing loss and their families. Anthony Smith will be putting in an appearance. He's the five year old whose story was told around the country when Marvel Comics created a superhero for him called Blue Ear--a sidekick who uses his special blue hearing aids to help others. There's more info on the event here.

Cross-country fundraising ride ends

We've been following Jacob Landis ride from Maryland to the West Coast and now to Miami--his last stop on his fundraising ride for cochlear implants. He's visited 30 Major League stadiums and last night, he watched a game at Marlins Park. WFOR-TV in Miami has a video report, which is posted below (captions available).

Jacob Landis hit during fundraising ride

The cross-country bike ride of Jacob Landis stalled in Tampa over the weekend when Landis was hit by a tractor trailer's mirror just a few miles from the last Major League Baseball stadium on his tour. He's already visited 29 stadiums and Marlin Park in Miami is last on his list. Landis was taken to a  hospital in the area with cuts and bruises, a cheekbone fracture and a chipped from tooth. Despite the setback, he's not letting the bump up stop him from his journey to raise awareness about cochlear implants. Landis will still attend tonight's game at Marlin Park when the Marlins take on the Phillies. His team issued a press release  here in which Landis says:

"Yesterday, with less than four miles to go to the hotel I was struck by a tractor trailer ’ s mirror. I don't remember anything that happened until I woke up at the hospital. I just want to thank everyone for their kind words through my Facebook account and special thanks to all of my supporters who made this ride possible.”

Jacob's Ride: Two stadiums to go

Jacob Landis is close to completing his ride across the country to raise money for cochlear implants. He's traveled about 10,000 miles on his bike, from his home in Maryland to the West Coast to Florida, where he'll catch a Tampa Bay Rays baseball game tonight. Landis is visiting 30 major league parks. Here's a video report on the ride from WFTS-TV in Tampa (captions available).

Bike ride fund-raiser reaches Georgia

Jacob Landis arrived in Atlanta to seen the Braves play yesterday. It's part of a swing around the country that is taking Landis coast to coast--to major league baseball stadiums around the country. He's nearing the end of his cycling adventure that is raising money for cochlear implants. WAGA-TV sat down with Landis this morning in Atlanta (captions available). Below is a video of the interview.

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Glow Golf in Ontario

A special golf tournament takes place this evening in Ontario Canada. DeafBlind Ontario Services annual Glow Golf takes place at the Greenhills Golf and Country Club. Besides the glow-in-the-dark golf game and a “sensory putting contest" where players depend on their tactile senses, the organization promises a barbecue dinner, prizes and silent auction. You can visit the DOS site for more information here.

Cyclist rides into Kansas City on Fundraising Tour

Jacob Landis

Jacob Landis made it to Kauffman Stadium on Labor Day to watch a game between the Kansas City Royals and the Seattle Mariners. Several hundred supporters from the deaf community greeted Landis in Kansas City at a tailgate party before the game. He's making a cross-country ride to raise money for those who can't afford cochlear implants, as we've been telling over the summer. He's on his way to reach every major league ballpark in America--and he's only got four to go. His last stop will be on September 24th at Marlins Park in Miami. KMBC-TV has a video report on Landis stop in KC here (captions included)
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1200 mile ride for deaf-blind

from WWMT-TV

A group from Michigan plan to bike 1200 miles in 25 days to Texas in order to raise funds for training deaf-blind sighted guides. The adventure begins next weekend in Kalamazoo. Watch the story (with sign interpretation) from WWMT-TV here.

Cycling for South African Education

A deaf cyclist is peddling across the US to raise awareness and funds for the education of deaf South African students. Dr. Murdoc Henderson, a professor at Gallaudet University, started in San Francisco and is on his way to Washington, DC for his relief organization called Intaba. KOMU-TV caught up with him this week in Missouri. Here is a short video from the TV station.

Fund-raising ride reaches West Coast

In April we started tracking the ride of Jacob Landis across country. We first told you about his adventure here. He plans to ride more than 10,000 miles to every major league ballpark in support of cochlear implants. He's made it across the country to Los Angeles and will attend an Angels game tomorrow (Friday). He visited Dodger stadium yesterday. Landis says he has more than half of his planned route and visited 21 stadiums. The effort has raised about $85,000, according to Landis. Read a news article about the latest on Jacob here hereor see his personal blog here. Below is a video about the ride (captions included).

Cyclist Makes it to Washington State

Jacob Landis is making a bike ride of more than 10,500 miles to raise money for children who need cochlear implants. The 24-year-old has implants himself that he received at the age of ten. He started in Maryland and now is in Spokane. You can find out what unique thing he's doing on the way in a post where we first told you about his journey here.

Fundraising Bike Ride reaches Minnesota

Jacob Landis has made it to Minnesota. We told you back in April here about the fund-raising effort of the deaf Maryland man. Here's a video report from KSTP-TV about his stop in Minneapolis (captioning available).

Using Baseball to Raise Money for Implants

A deaf Maryland man's fund-raising effort has made its way to Detroit. We told you about Jacob Landis's adventure back in April here. Landis is biking to every Major League Baseball park in the country. WJBK-TV sat down and spoke with him in the video posted below. No captioning but you can read the story here.

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